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Love it. Nice two hour walks in light snow, shorts on, bit of Portishead or The Cure on the headphones.
And the best bit is, no fucker else around.
I’d sympathise with those that like warmer weather, but I went to Tenerife for a week and spent every day dead from heat. And it stank. You got your shit, I got mine.
I enjoy driving in snow. Doesn’t matter if i it’s a car, motorcycle or bicycle but I m not fan of no snow winter with low temperature .
I only ever choose to go outside when it’s cold.
Fuck the heat.
Put me out in the cold, I love the cold! Coldness is kind of a state of mind. Obviously there comes a point where being too cold is dangerous, but I find I can think myself out of being bothered by low temps.
I think it’s the Norwegians who have a saying something like, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes for the weather”. I have a lovely Kangol jacket which keeps me warm in cold environments (and sweaty everywhere else)
I actually like being out in the cold., especially camping in negatives (under 273°K) or snow. I spent most of my life beach bumming in the subtropics and after adjusting to the initial climate change, find winter in an alpine environment much easier than summer in subtropics.
In the cold you can just put another layer on or go inside and it’s refreshing. As opposed heat where you’re naked, but that’s it you can’t remove anymore, and the massive dehumidifier/aircon somehow can’t keep up, the town water’s gone warm so a cold shower doesn’t help much. You just wait for around 5:00pm when the daily massive storm rolls through dumping back down everything the day sucked up, leaving the roads steaming so much you can’t see, and giving the sun a last 90 mins to suck it all back up again for a bit of nighttime humidity and the impossibility of sleep.
I have tried to sleep in 46°C with high humidity and I’ve slept like a baby camping in -11°C dug in snow.
My dads company has been trying to move south for a while and my dad’s been one of the few that refuses to move south. As a result he finds himself having a lot of southern coworkers and when he debate of why you love the north so much. This is what he always brings up.
I 100% agree with you. I live in the southern US so most of the year is miserable to me temperature wise.
Also heads up kelvin is just notated with K no degree sign.
I just moved down to Miami last month. I know it’s going to be brutal come May/June (I was just down there in August) but I’ve spent the last 38 years in the North East and having to put on a winter jacket and gloves just to sit in your car and drive somewhere while waiting for the heater to work gets old after a while. At least a lot of the places in the South (or at least the newer cities in Florida) are built for the heat, meanwhile the NE wasn’t built for recent climate change. This summer was just as bad as Miami many days in a row, I was staying at my parents 100+ year old house in NJ (which doesn’t have central air) and even with the window AC cranked down to 63 I’d wake up sweating because it was 80-90% humidity in my room.
You’re the only one I’ve seen mention “normal” temperatures in Kelvin 😂
Ha I live in Australia
If I try doing any of that in the summer either I die of heat stroke or I die of starvation (because I can no longer afford food because of how much I’m spending on AC).
I certainly love winter more than summer
Challenge accepted, let’s go. I’ll pack a thermos full of piping hot coffee and a nice jacket, let’s take a walk in nature and appreciate how even though you can hear everything, it’s still quiet.
There’s nothing quieter than the woods on a clear cold night in January. You can almost hear the owls fly by. Best time to see the stars, too.
This is one of the reasons why I’ve loved my last few homes. They’ve all been close enough to the woods to see and hear the wildlife, but close enough to the Brecon Beacons / Bannnau Brecheiniog that I can be there in less than 20 minutes, and enjoying a Dark Skies site.
We’re gatekeeping seasons now? Winter is best enjoyed however the fuck I want.
gatekeeping is good
why
I contend that snowboarding is only enjoyable in the winter season.
Nooooo what are you doing?! Stop that! Stop that now!
Counterpoint: Try chilling in your living room under a heated blanket with some cozy socks on and sipping hot tea when its Summer.
Yeah, it’s far too expensive in hot weather to get proper indoor conditions for a fire, a blanket, and hot tea – if you can manage it at all. I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of poor insulation that allows for those conditions or what, but I couldn’t properly replicate them in my house.
I like how it looks.
In shorts, no shirt 😁
Vermonters: wait you just now changing me. I was doing that the whole time.
I love shoveling snow when it’s crazy cold outside. Bonus points if it’s still actively snowing. There is something meditative about it.
You absolute madman
You are welcome to shovel my walkway whenever you want.
The best part about winter is that no one else is outside. You get to walk around and breath in the crisp air and just enjoy the world. No people, no problems
Unless you live in a place like NYC. It’s still cold as shit, but you have to be outside in order to get anywhere. Putting on an arctic level jacket just to walk to the subway, and then having to take it off because the subway car is 70F but then having to put it back on when you get outside because it’s freezing cold, but then having to unzip it while walking around because you’ve built up body heat and it’s stupid humid out, even though it’s like 25F is just flat out annoying. Also, once you get to your destination there’s no place to put your coat.
Being out in fresh snow in a desolate area is definitely captivating though.
Here people go out to enjoy winter
I’ve tried winter camping twice. Both times I was cold, wet, and miserable the entire time. Cold, wet, and miserable are things that I try to avoid, not seek out.
Skill issue
I think it was more of a gear issue. I knew what to do, but I was poor and didn’t really have the right clothing or gear. I’ve thought about trying it again now, but those experiences put me off enough that I’m not going to try again until my Mt. Rainier summit attempt. For that trip I expect to be miserable the whole time anyways, so if I am, no love lost.
Winter camping can be pretty hard but with practice you can really enjoy it. Its a balance of adjusting layers based on temperature and activity level and changing your layers as needed when sweaty or wet.
Also you need a pretty good sleeping pad alongside the warm blankets/sleeping bag.
Yeah, I had a cotton sleeping bag, and a cardboard ground pad. I was a poor kid, going with my boy scout troop. I have thought about doing it again with the right gear, but decided against it. I’ll be sleeping in the snow when I attempt to summit Mt. Rainier, but otherwise those two experiences were miserable enough that I don’t really want to seek out that experience.
That sounds like a lot of work just to sleep outside.
Yeah, late Spring, Summer, or early Fall camping is a lot more enjoyable than being freezing cold during Winter. Dragging out tons of gear just to keep yourself from literally freezing to death isn’t that fun IMO.
